Author Archives: Ian Adamson

S. DEWI (David) of Mynyvt (St. David’s), now patron saint of the Welsh, was also associated with the Church of Northern Alba. The competition for primacy which raged in the Roman Catholic period between Caerleon, St. David’s, and Llandaff has left … Continue reading →

S. GiLDAS, the Briton, was born in A.D.516, as he himself informs us ‘in the year of the battle of Badon,’ at Dunbarton, the capital of Lennox, when the city was still the capital of the Britons of Clyde and … Continue reading →

S. Cadoc, who also laboured in the Brito-Pictish borderland, was a Briton; and he falls into direct succession to S. Ninian, S. Caranoc the Great, Paul Hén, the historic S. Servanus, and S. Drostan. Only a few historical facts about … Continue reading →

Former British prime minister John Major has hailed the document he agreed with Albert Reynolds in 1993 which prepared the ground for the IRA ceasefire the following year and cemented a new, closer relationship between London and Dublin. Speaking in Iveagh House, Dublin … Continue reading →

Another legend, the Legend of Fergusianus, gives the credit of the missionary work of S. Fergus of Buchan and Caithness to a certain romanized Celt of late date bearing the same name. The object of this fabulist was evidently to … Continue reading →

While S. Buidhe was continuing S. Ninian’s work in Angus, the historical S. Servanus or Serf , even better known by the classical shortening of the Latin name as S. Ser, continued it along the left bank of the Forth … Continue reading →

S. Ninian, however, by his Irish mission, and favoured by the proximity’of Candida Casa to the north-east coast of Ireland, had attracted many pupils to his monastery from among the Irish Picts. ‘n- Aondruim on Mahee Island, Strangford Loch, was one … Continue reading →

(Colin Woodard, a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and the Chronicle of Higher Education, is the author of “The Lobster Coast,” “The Republic of Pirates” and “Ocean’s End.” This is  excerpted from his new book, “American Nations: A History of … Continue reading →

S. Erchard or M’erchard a Pict, also a native of ‘Mearns’ Alba, was one of S. Ternan’s converts and became his disciple. Erchard’s birthplace was near Kincardine O’Neil, Aberdeenshire. In course of time S. Ternan ordained him a presbyter.’and Erchard … Continue reading →

THE MEN WHO CONTINUED S. NINIAN’S MISSION – WORK AND ORGANIZED THE CHURCH OF THE PICTS CHAPTER EIGHT Owing to the loss or destruction of records and the indifference or jealousy of the Roman clergy of the middle ages, the … Continue reading →